Woman waved a long slash-hook at gardaí

A long slash-hook was waved at gardaí when they called to a house in Cork in the early hours of the morning in response to a call for assistance for an injured woman.

Inspector Michael McGuire said it was the woman they were trying to assist who turned on them and warned them off with the slash-hook.

The dangerous implement was in Cork District Court yesterday. It consisted of a pole approximately 2m long with a rusty slash-hook attached to the end of it. It would have been put in evidence in the course of a trial but by the time the case was called, all three defendants in the case — the woman and her father and husband — pleaded guilty to their parts in the incident.